Software Engineer Intern (Applied Machine Learning-Enterprise) - 2026 Start (PhD)

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 49,593 - 82,656; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Job summary

ByteDance invites a PhD student to join as Software Engineer Intern (Applied Machine Learning-Enterprise) in San Jose. You will contribute to building a scalable big model-as-a-service platform supporting hundreds of LLM-based applications, covering offline training, online inference, and model management.

Collaboration across teams will be essential to optimize GPU resource usage. The role emphasizes strong software engineering skills in C++, Python or Go, and experience with PyTorch or

Qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• Proficient in PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience with C++, Python or Go for software development.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a next-generation big model as a service platform for LLM-based applications.
• Handle offline training/finetuning, online inference, model management and resource orchestration.
• Manage large GPU resources and provide efficient computing power.

Skills

C++

Python

Go

Teamwork

Communication

Code design

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Software Engineer Intern (Applied Machine Learning-Enterprise) - 2026 Start (PhD)

Location: San Jose

Team: Technology

Employment Type: Intern

Job Code: A10411A

Responsibilities

• Building a next-generation big model as a service platform to serve hundreds of LLMs based applications
• Developing and maintaining the big model as a service platform, including offline training/finetuning, online inference, model management, and resource orchestration, etc.
• Managing a huge number of GPU resources and providing computing power efficiently

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science or related technical field
• Proficient in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Experience with software development in at least one of the following programming languages: C++, Python, Go
• Good sense of teamwork and communication skills, practical experience in relevant business scenarios is preferred
• Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in NLP and LLM technologies
• Experience or research in Alignment for Large language models
• Experience in ModelOps, for example large model management, finetuning workflow management, etc.
• Contribution to top-tier conference papers, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, KDD, etc. is a big plus

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Job Information

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $60- $60.

Benefits

Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

Reasonable Accommodation

ByteDance is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request